Chapter 598: Incompetence is the Greatest Original Sin!

Siu Rui is discussing national politics with the Cabinet Scholars, and political affairs are basically related to people's livelihood.

Xiao Rui is not stunned, don't say that water can carry a boat or overturn a boat, don't mention that the people are precious, the community is secondary, and the monarch is light, those are all good words, Xiao Rui is now in charge of the country, and he understands the truth better than anyone else.

Xiao Rui understands that the stability of the people is the foundation of the stability of the country. Let the people be fed and clothed, then everything will be peaceful, otherwise look at the Qi country, look at the Ming Dynasty in the previous life, the refugees rose up, and no people were idle and bored to do the rebellion of killing the head and destroying the nine clans.

Therefore, the next political affairs to be discussed, including the opening of Enke in the coming year, the rapid popularization of cotton planting, the continued expansion of new crops, etc., Xiao Rui put forward his own questions, and the six cabinet scholars responded quickly, and brainstormed to discuss an effective countermeasure, if there is a difficulty, it is also directly raised, and Xiao Rui will finalize the case.

The lower level does things, the middle level leaders, and the top level find a way to make a plan, and the leader sets the goal, this is what things should look like!

Xiao Rui is very glad that His Majesty has planned for him, the adjusted cabinet is integrated, and the scholars are dedicated to the public, do not fight for power, and provide strong support for Xiao Rui's supervision of the country, so why worry about the country's affairs not being solved?

The blood of the Chinese people is integrated into the concept that man will conquer the sky, so even if the natural disasters and disasters ahead, they cannot stop the pace of progress. The enemy of the Chinese people is themselves, if they don't fight and fight, they are really indomitable.

After more than two hours, the deliberations ended.

When the cabinet scholars leave, they have to make specific arrangements according to the matter, and the next step is the work of the six departments.

Xiao Rui took a sip of tea and asked Xiao Xiao to pinch his shoulders, and his spirit was relaxed.

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In Fukuoka in the western part of the Wa Kingdom, the Great Xia Navy led by Pingbo Hou Yao Tianye has landed, and encountered a typhoon on the way to the boat, fortunately the typhoon is not very powerful, otherwise the entire fleet will be destroyed and killed, but Pingbo Hou is scared half to death, for fear that he will die before he is born.

Fortunately, I was able to cross the typhoon group without any danger, but the direction was also off, so the time to come to the country was delayed by a few days.

After experiencing the catastrophe and not dying, Ping Bohou glanced at this barbarian land, the corners of his mouth appeared with murderous intent, he was frightened by the typhoon, and he wanted to vent, and this barbarian in front of him was the best target.

Moreover, His Majesty's order to him was: to eliminate the resistance forces of the Wa Kingdom and dismantle the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate.

For the future foundation of Great Xia, kill!

In this way, the 20,000 navy led by Pingbohou to land first was like a tiger that pounced on a rabbit's nest. At the same time, the rest of the navy will be replenished one after another, and now this one is only the forward team.

According to Emperor Xia's plan, a total of 100,000 troops were sent to deal with the Wa Kingdom, destroy the shogunate and the emperor, and set up Yingzhou, which became a new territory in Great Xia. Within five years, the largest seagoing ship workshop in Daxia will be built, which echoes with the seagoing boat workshop in Huzhou, Daxia, and is ready for the future super-large-scale navigation of Daxia.

The prince said that there is a new continent to the east of the sea, and it would be a pity not to see it! I've heard that people there like to stick bird feathers on their heads!

And the arrival of the Great Xia soldiers and horses also frightened the local residents of the Wa Kingdom, and the Fukuoka Attendant sent someone to check the situation, but Pingbo Hou didn't bother to ask, so he directly asked people to hold it down, and then asked him about the situation.

The subdued Japanese did not dare to resist, and immediately knew everything.

Through his translation, Heiba Hou learned that although the Tokugawa Shogunate destroyed the Ashikaga Shogunate and ruled the Wa Kingdom, Edo was more than a thousand miles away from Fukuoka, so Fukuoka was still in the process of changing the old and new forces, and the Tokugawa Shogunate had not yet completely stabilized the order of the Wa Kingdom.

Therefore, Fukuoka was divided into two factions, one faction supported the new shogunate, and the other faction tried to recover the Ashikaga shogunate, so there were often chaotic battles, and samurai fights were endless.

And the strength of these two factions is almost more than 10,000 people.

There is no way, the samurai of the Wa Kingdom who have suffered from the poison of war are dead, crippled, and the population is withered, and the strength of the army is naturally greatly reduced. Ten years ago, the Ashikaga shogunate had a population of nearly 20 million and a military force of about 200,000.

What now?

Under the crushing of the power of the two shogunates, the population rapidly declined, only a little more than 10 million remained, and the available troops were only 50,000 or 60,000 miserable, and the continuous conquest made the people miserable, and in the past few years, it was the Xiaoice River period, and under the earthquake and typhoon, the situation of the people was even more worrying.

Therefore, it is not difficult for Great Xia to prepare to rule the Wa Kingdom with an army of 100,000.

After asking about the situation, Pingbo Marquis immediately ordered: first occupy the western part of the Wa Kingdom, sweep away the resistance forces here, wait for other armies and grain and grass to arrive, wave troops north, destroy the Tokugawa shogunate, and capture the emperor alive.

The conquest of the Wa Kingdom has officially begun!

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Qi country there.

After the champion Hou took Liaoyuan City, he left 10,000 troops to garrison, and then continued to wave his troops north, and greatly accelerated the speed.

Because he also heard that the iron cavalry of the Yuan State broke through the defense of the Qi State and attacked the imperial capital of the Qi State, it seems that the Yuan State also wants to destroy the Qi State, and it is rushing in an instant.

Grab heads?

Is it tolerable or unbearable!

The person who dared to rob him of the Zhuge Yuan Bear booty was not born yet!

Immediately, the champion Hou once again divided his troops into three ways, and attacked the imperial capital of Qi in an encirclement situation, and encountered a rebellious city in the place he passed, first carried out a wave of intimidation, and then released arrows!

The Great Xia bow is strong and the arrows are fast, and the range is still far, and the first wave of arrows will be released, and the arrows in the sky will be so frightened that the Qi army in the city has no power to resist.

Then there was a wave of stone-throwing attacks, which tasted fiercer than arrow feathers.

Besides, in the current situation of the Qi State, without the support of the imperial court, how many troops can there be in the cities of those state capitals? If you don't want to die, you can obediently surrender, Daxia's recruitment policy is very good, rewarding arable land, and if officials take the initiative to surrender, they can also maintain their official status.

Such a good treatment, what are you waiting for, dear!

It can be said that the capture of Liaoyuan City was a turning point, and Great Xia went from being unstoppable and steadily advancing to being like a bamboo, breaking through several cities in a row.

Within ten days, the army of Champion Hou was still more than 200 miles away from the imperial capital of Qi, and at this time, it was also close to the Xiaoxue solar term.

And the weather in Qi has also dropped, and the bucket has frozen in the morning, indicating that the temperature has reached below zero, according to this weather, it may snow if it snows. Last year, Qi was a blizzard, but what about this year?

The weather factor also made the champion Hou a little worried, so he continued to speed up the pace of the march, hoping that before the bad weather came, the army would come to the imperial capital of the Qi State, in that case, there would only be one last step left to destroy the Qi State.

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

Since the Liaoyuan city broke through and the Yuan army broke through the defense, and the Qi Emperor of the year of the establishment of the year fainted twice, during this time his body deteriorated, and the disadvantages that came every day forced him to go crazy, either this city was breached, or the city took refuge in Great Xia, or the Yuan army in the north robbed which prefecture and county, and finally the traitor Nanshan Army sent the "little sweet", tormenting the Qi Emperor.

He was really afraid, afraid that he would become the king of the fallen country of Great Qi, which was something he never thought of when he inherited the throne!

He has only inherited the throne for eight years, and when he succeeded to the throne, the Qi State was quite stable, and at most the north was robbed by the Yuan State, how could it become like this in just a few years?

What the hell is the complaint?

He had insomnia, constantly thinking about the reason, he always wanted to be a good emperor, and he didn't do what a faint king did, but on the contrary, he was still tired, why did he still lose the country?

It's not my fault, it's not my own reason, it's God, it's this bad weather, it's the damn Xia Kingdom and the Yuan Army!

Emperor Qi is like Chongzhen in his previous life, but he is worse than Chongzhen, Chongzhen persevered for seventeen years, and he only lasted for eight years.

As everyone knows, incompetence is the original sin.

At this time, Emperor Qi was lying on the soft collapse, listening to the battle situation of the right minister Wei Nanzheng.

Emperor Qi suddenly waved his hand and interrupted: "Don't say it, I don't want to hear it!" What about Prince He's family? Have you been caught? ”

Wei Nanzheng said: "Weichen deserves to die, and there is no clue so far!" ”

Before Emperor Qi fell into a coma, he asked Wei Nanzheng to take a good look at Prince He's family, if it was really Prince He who took refuge in Great Xia, then kill his family. Who knows, when Wei Nanzheng left the palace and went to Prince He's mansion in person, Ye Wendao, Ye Qianying, Bai Suzhen and others were gone.

Wei Nanzheng designed Prince He to go to the front line, just to deal with Prince He, the two had a hatred when they were young, and now the plan has finally succeeded, and everyone has fled!

This can make Wei Nanzheng angry and roar loudly, he was actually used, so that Liaoyuan Chengpo is a conspiracy of Prince He!

He immediately blocked the city gate and searched for it, but unfortunately he has not found it until now.

Emperor Qi clenched his fists in anger, he knew that he was also tricked by Prince He, and couldn't help but roar: "Damn, I really want to punish him for the nine clans and dig up his ancestral grave..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Emperor Qi was dumbfounded.

Prince He is his own uncle, and the Nine Clans dig ancestral graves, forget it... The matter is not to be mentioned.

What about Prince He Ye Qingshan and his family at this time?

They had already moved with their families into the Great Xia Kingdom, and by this time they had already arrived in Xuzhou, which was still a few days away from Kyoto.

And Prince He didn't leave the Qi State so simply, his departure was a strong signal that told the officials in the Qi State that it was time to make a choice!

History is always strikingly similar, on the eve of the destruction of the Zhao State, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs made a choice in order to protect himself, and now the Qi State is also facing this problem.

Xia and Yuan, who to choose?

The ministers of the Qi State knew very well in their hearts.

At this time, in front of Xiao Rui, there was a list, and Wang Dazhi stood aside obediently.

Emperor Xia established Xichang in order to spy on enemy intelligence, and Zhao and Qi were countries bordering Great Xia, so they were the targets of spying.

This list was passed out by the secret agent who was planted in the Qi State, and this secret agent, like Chuan Jianguo, was the best official in the Qi State, and now he was mixed into the position of Langzhong in the Criminal Department.

And the officials on this list have the idea of throwing in the summer and can communicate in depth.

Xiao Rui looked at the list and found that there were all officials of five or six grades, and there were no officials above four grades, which is actually easy to understand. Above the fourth grade belongs to a high position, even if they have the intention of taking refuge in Great Xia, they dare not show it, in case it is a temptation of Emperor Qi, if they don't pick a good back road, they will go directly to a dead end.

And they have identity and status, so they can wait for the destruction of the Qi State and then take refuge in Great Xia. When Great Xia occupied the land of Qi, it was inevitable to use Qi officials to govern the people of Qi, so they had nothing to fear, and they also wanted to preserve their reputation.

"The time has come to reach out to these officials." Xiao Rui returned the list to Wang Dazhi.

Wang Dazhi said respectfully: "My subordinates understand! ”

After speaking, Wang Dazhi said again: "Your Highness, Qin Du has sent back the news of Chang Yu. ”

When Xiao Rui heard this, he immediately became interested.